Thirty years ago we bought a half-acre piece of land, an island in a river which has a public footpath running along the riverbank. We planted 300 trees and tried to make it into a nature reserve for the local wildlife. A few years later I planted 100 snowdrops "in the green" and I was delighted when the following year all 100 bulbs flowered. Since then the clumps of bulbs have grown and I regularly dig them up and separate all the bulbs and replant them. Now there are thousands of snowdrops. We get a lot of casual walkers along the river path and they enjoy the snowdrops. When they have finished flowering I take orders for 100 or 50 or less bulbs and sell them in aid of the local Hospice.
All our work on the island is done in memory of our baby daughter who died suddenly aged 7 months. Here is a photo taken last week